This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with Darren Hemmings (Motive Unknown) and Tom Satchwell (Beatsontoast, Fortitude PR). It’s a busy week as we tackle Tunewiki’s closure, the rumours surrounding iTunes Radio and the indie sector, the idea of Jay-Z’s Samsung deal being a controlled (& lucrative) leak, Spotify apps (where to?), Sony Music Unlimited and Xbox Music expanding

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This week on Digital Music Trends J Herskowitz, Jeff Price and Marcus Taylor join me to chat about: Jay Z’s deal with Samsung on the release of Magna Carta Holy Grail, BMI taking Pandora to the Rate Court, Pink Floyd joining the streaming fold, Audiam launching to enable musicians to collect all their YouTube money,

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This week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Clyde Smith (Hypebot.com) from N. Carolina, Jim Carroll (Irish Times) from Dublin and Alejandro Marin (themusicpimp.com) from Bogota’.. This week we cover – of course – Apple’s iTunes Radio announcement extensively from various different angles, we chat about 7Digital’s new streaming platform, Pandora’s op-ed explaining the acquisition of a small terrestrial radio station and

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This week Digital Music Trends was in Washington DC recording interviews at the World Creators Summit (organized by CISAC), an event that gathered speakers from around the world discussing author rights, policy & copyright issues keeping the creators firmly in focus. So this week’s DMT is a collection of five interviews filmed whilst over there

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This week Digital Music Trends is entirely focused on digital music news from Asia including the latest coming from Music Matters which took place in Singapore last week. To help me understand what’s happening in the region the team of Valleyarm Digital and Music Weekly Asia including Marie Berst from Singapore, Neil Cartwright from Manila

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This week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Virginie Berger, founder of media agency Don’t Believe the Hype and Duncan Geere, freelance journalist working with a variety of publications including Wired. This week on the show we start by talking about Songkick opening up the beta of its Detour concert crowdsourcing platform to all Londoners and joining forces with

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This week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Darren Hemmings, founder of digital marketing agency Motive Unknown, and Stephen O’Reilly, director of Topspin UK & director of International Sales at Mobile Roadie. This week we start by talking about the Google Music breaking news story, speculating on what will happen at the Google I/O event which unfortunately is due to happen

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This week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Adam Webb and Richard Kirstein (Resilient Music). We start with music streaming stories talking about Spotify acquiring Tunigo and about Songza’s latest update and its growth in numbers. We also cover Bittorrent’s introduction of the Bittorrent Bundles alpha in partnership with Ultra Music and Kaskade, the year-long deal between Vevo

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This week on Digital Music Trends first a quick news round-up covering the latest on SiriusXM, Twitter #Music, iTunes, Amanda Palmer’s shout-out to Morrissey, Shazam and the compilation market in the UK. Then a few interviews recorded at Future Music Camp 2013 in Mannheim. The event, organized by the Popakademie, saw students, music industry and startups come together to

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This week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Ben Sisario (New York Times), Eliot Van Buskirk (Evolver.fm) and Andy Malt (CMU). The news of the week of course is Twitter Music so we proceed to review, analyse and ponder the many angles of this story, though I can’t promise that is a linear process in any way… Then we chat

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This week on Digital Music Trends an event-specific show with a collection of interviews recorded at the Music Connected event organised by the Association of Independent Music in London. We chat about digital marketing, release planning, advertising budgets, getting exposure on streaming services, the responsibilities of management and much more with companies like Beggars, Spotify, Ministry of

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On this episode of Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli and Tom Davenport chat about Vdio’s long-awaited debut to US and UK Rdio subscribers, BBM Music’s retirement, the latest numbers from the IFPI & NPD, some lovely infographics from Pandora celebrating the 200m users milestone and from the BPI celebrating the 1 billionth digital single sold in the

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This week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Steve Knopper (Rolling Stone) and Eamonn Forde (MusicAlly). Lots to talk about as we delve into Redigi’s court loss in the case brought by Capitol Records, the passing of Phil Ramone, the evolution and future of charts in the US and the UK, the three strikes law in South Korea,

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On this episode of Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Dave Allen, director of interactive strategy at North.com and former Gang of Four bass player, and Nikke Osterback, founder of digital strategy agency Saari Music. We chat about Twitter’s entry in the music space, Spotify’s new advertising campaign as well as rehashed rumours of a video service, Deezer’s CEO outlook

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Digital Music Trends reports from SXSW 2013 with an hour-long summary show of all the interviews recorded during the 8-day stay in Austin, Texas. In DMT 124 representatives from companies/organisations like 7digital, Lyricfind, SoundHound, ONErpm, Sperry Media, Republic Records, CD Baby, Jamplify, Givit, MediaNet, Songza, Soundexchange, VH1, Pollack Media, Livestream, George Washington Law School, The

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This week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Karim Fanous (Music Ally) and Syd Laurence (Wemakeawesomesh.it, Twilio). It’s certainly a good day and a good year to stream hard as the big players put their chips on the table: with Beats raising $60m for Daisy, Tesco planning a Blinkbox Music rollout, Google bringing YouTube’s weight to the table and

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This week on DMT 122 I’m joined by Matthew Hawn and Darren Hemmings. We discuss reports of Google entering the music streaming market, Spotify’s deal with Ford and the significance of on-demand in the car, Harlem Shake’s no. 1, the Billboard moneymakers list looking at recorded vs touring vs streaming income, the live tweeting of Radio 1′s playlisting

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This week on Digital Music Trends we have an all-German panel, with Ryan Rauscher (Smix.lab, Futuremusiccamp), Barbara Hallama (Hallama.org) and Steffen Holly (Fraunhofer IDMT). On the show we tackle the international news first, starting with Gracenote’s new Developer Program which makes the company’s APIs and MusicID available to all on a non-commercial basis. We also chat about a couple of recent articles

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This week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Taishi Fukuyama (All Access Today Japan) and Sam Taylor (CMU, Great Escape Conference). In what was a technically challenging show (those who follow the video version will see what I mean) we managed eventually to chat about: - Pandora’s latest numbers, Web Radio, market saturation and

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This Week on Digital Music Trends we take a break from the traditional weekly panel based on the week’s news to showcase some of the interviews I recorded at Midem 2013. The first part features some of the start-ups I met, so we’ll check out Spins.fm, Pulselocker, JoyTunes and Yasound. In the second part we

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On this episode of DMT I’m joined by Glenn Peoples (@billboardglenn) and J Herskowitz (@jherskowitz). This week we talk about: - Bjork’s Kickstarter campaign for Biophilia - Rdio launching a free 6-month trial of the service in multiple territories - Samsung’s Music Hub going beyond Samsung devices - Sony Music Unlimited HQ audio: will anyone

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This week on Digital Music Trends we cover The Most News Ever. Only kidding, but it’s a hefty number of stories and I couldn’t have done it without the help of Stuart Dredge and Darren Hemmings. This week we talk about:  - the public launch of MySpace, Justin Timberlake’s involvement and the Merlin rights issue. - Redigi’s upcoming

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This is a busy news week on DMT but thankfully I’m joined by David Emery (Beggars), Will Mills (Shazam) and Duncan Geere (DuncanGeere.com) to help make sense of it all. We start out by talking about Beats by Dre and their recent announcement of project Daisy (with Topspin’s Ian Rogers as CEO), then we move on to talking about the launch

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Happy new year to all DMT listeners! This week I’m joined by David Riley from Good Lizard Media and Clyde Smith from Hypebot. We kick off a new run of the podcast by looking at the music sales figures from 2012 coming from the US (Nielsen/Billboard) and the UK (BPI/Official Charts Company). Nothing hugely uplifting but things could be worse… We also talk

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This week a special Digital Music Trends end-of-year episode: seven start-ups give us the low-down on 2012 and their outlook for 2013. On the show: Alex White from Next Big Sound, Lee Parsons from Ditto Music, Dave Haynes from Soundcloud, Olivier de Simone from Webdoc, Nico Perez from Mixcloud, Francesco Baschieri from Spreaker, Ed Averdieck from Cuesongs. I hope you enjoy the show, enjoy the holidays and see you in the new year! Andrea Leonelli @digimusictrends…

After last week’s raft of announcements from Spotify we spend the vast majority of the show making sense of where the company is heading. Featuring Steve Knopper (@knopps), Darren Hemmings (@mr_trick) and Eliot Van Buskirk (@listeningpost) as guest hosts we discuss Spotify’s latest numbers, the potential impact on users of the upcoming features, the impact

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Soundcloud’s new interface & reach numbers,  the music discovery relevancy (heated) debate, Turntable’s revamp and Piki launch, the territorial expansion of iTunes & iTunes 11. These are some of the stories we cover on this week’s edition of DMT featuring Mark Mulligan (@mark_mulligan), Ben Sisario (@sisario) and Andy Malt (@andymalt) as guest hosts. You can find the shownotes and links to all

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This week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Darren Hemmings (@mr_trick) and Sam Taylor (@saaaaaam). We talk about: - AC/DC landing on iTunes (finally) and the parallels to hold-outs now happening in the streaming world including Rihanna’s latest album release -  digital groceries, as UK supermarket giant Tesco plans to integrate recently acquired music streaming

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This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with Martyn Davies (@martyndavies, Sendgrid) and Syd Lawrence (@sydlawrence, Twilio, Wemakeawesomesh.it) about Musichackday London 2012 which took place over the weekend of the 17th/18th of November at Facebook’s HQ in Soho. This week it’s well worth checking out the video version of the show as I’ve incorporated videos of some of the

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This week on Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli (@digimusictrends), Nancy Baym (@nancybaym) and Eamonn Forde (@eamonn_forde) chat about Spotify, the UMG/HP deal, the rise of 4G and its impact on music services, fan-funded projects versus a label’s A&R spending power and much more! You can find the shownotes for this week’s podcast here with links

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This week on Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli, Gerd Leonhard (@gleonhard) and Tom Davenport (@tomdavenport) discuss internet radio streaming rates, Pandora’s woes, Google’s free matching service, the latest on Vevo & Youtube and Facebook Music Apps. Enjoy the show and check out the show-notes below for links to all the articles that were read in

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This week on Digital Music Trends a special episode going live while I’m on vacation where I interview the founders of start-ups Bamm.tv (connecting emerging artists, entertainment service providers and audiences worldwide via the production of HD video content) and Datownia (allowing any company to create an API easily).  Enjoy and ’till next week when

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This week on Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli (@digimusictrends), Virginie Berger (@virberg), Karim Fanous (@Karim_Fanous) and Taishi Fukuyama (@tshfkym) discuss Microsoft’s move into streaming with Xbox music, Spotify’s potential launch in Japan as well as the evolution of the market over there, anti-piracy measures and costs in France, Japan and the UK, the problem of accurate reporting

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This week on Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli (@digimusictrends), Stephen O’Reilly (@steoreilly) and Darren Hemmings (@mr_trick) talk about Deezer’s new round of funding, Pandora’s royalties revelations, Soundcloud partnering with Getty to offer licensing opportunities to its users, Last.fm’s earnings, the Redigi case on second hand music and much more! Here’s a link to the week’s Shownotes with

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This week on Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli (@digimusictrends), Sitar Teli (@sitar), Martyn Davies (@martynrdavies) and Mark Mulligan (@Mark_Mulligan) talk about Neil Young’s fight to bring lossless to the masses with Pono, Rdio’s new artist referral initiative, the conclusion of UMG’s acquisition of EMI,  the CD’s 30th anniversary and the teaser video for Megabox. Here the

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This week on Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli (@digimusictrends), Nathan Hoy (@nathanhoy), Darren Hemmings (@mr_trick) and Zach Carter (@zachncarter) have a lengthy chat about the UMG/EMI merger, Pandora’s quest to lower radio streaming rates in the US, the sexy defibrillation of Myspace, 7digital’s “Prototype Package” and the age-old question on windowing of releases this time

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This week Andrea Leonelli (@digimusictrends) Duncan Geere (@duncangeere), Steve Knopper (@knopps) and Andy Malt (@andymalt) discuss the latest news in digital music including Bittorrent, Clean Clouds, iTunes, Shazam, Reverbnation, Hadopi. Also this week another segment by Ashley Eldson from Palmsounds on mobile music making apps! Talking iPhone 5 and the magic of Audiobus! Please do

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This week on Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli, Darren Hemmings (@mr_trick), Eliot Van Buskirk (@listeningpost) and Eamonn Forde (@eamonn_forde) discuss the digital music news of the past week. In the show – which also includes a segment on mobile music making apps by Ashley Eldson – we talk about Apple’s radio rumours and implications, Bruce

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